Biblioteca Digital da UNIVATES utilizando a ferramenta DSpace

摘要

This work seeks to present the solution adopted by the Centro Universitário UNIVATES to supply the need of making available all the intellectual and scientific production of the Institution in global scale, through a Digital Library. Among several available tools, it was chosen a free software with possibilities of expansion and adaptation to the presented needs, called DSpace. DSpace is a digital repository developed under the partnership of MIT and HP with the objective of keeping, preserving, managing and disseminating the intellectual product of the organizations. For being a complex system, several other tools and technologies are used to confer functionality and enlarge its performance resources, which will be briefly mentioned. To explain the term "Digital Library", it will be presented categories of Libraries defined by some authors.